Linux-audio-announce October 2008

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LAC2009 website on line

by Fons Adriaensen

Hello world, A first edition of the LAC2009 website is now on line at http://lac2009.linuxaudio.org Apart from the initial announcement you'll find there the calls for papers and music, and some related documents. More information will be added in the coming weeks. The site is (surprise !) hosted by linuxaudio.org, site administrator is Robin Gareus, with design and layout by Christoph Haag. For the paper submission and review we are again using openconf, with Frank Neumann at the controls. Ciao, -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa.

16 years, 9 months

NASPRO 0.1.1 is out

by Stefano D'Angelo

Hello everybody, I'm glad to announce the new 0.1.1 relase of NASPRO. NASPRO, recursive acronym for "NASPRO Architecture for Sound PROcessing", is a free/open source, modular and cross-platform sound processing framework with a strong emphasys on interoperability. Its main aim is to provide users and developers a full-featured tool to do sound manipulation using heterogeneous technologies which are already available (such as LADSPA or LV2 plugins) and at the same time make it easy to develop new ones without breaking interoperability. Please, keep in mind that it is work in progress and that we're in early stages of development. Homepage: http://naspro.atheme.org New stuff in this release: * new build system (which sucks, but it's better than before); * NDF 0.1 file format support; * CPU endianess neutrality; * fixes. Stefano

16 years, 9 months

LAC 2009

by Fons Adriaensen

La Casa della Musica invites all Linux Audio developers, users, composers, musicians, philosophers and anyone interested to The Linux Audio Conference 2009 16-19 April 2009 La Casa della Musica Palazzo Cusani Parma, Italy The LAC will go outside Germany for the first time, but we will keep close to the familiar four-day format with paper presentations, workshops, electro-acoustic music concerts, and the Linux Sound Night. The website is being created, and 'calls for everything' will be issued before the end of this week. The conference starts a few weeks later than the previous one, which allows the deadlines for everything to be moved as well. For the papers and music calls this will be somewhere mid January, so you can use the end-of-year holiday period to get creative. We hope to see you all in Parma ! Fons Adriaensen, LAD Francesca Montresor, CdM

16 years, 10 months

Rivendell Operations Guide v1.1.0-1

by Fred Gleason

I'm pleased to announce the release of a new version of the Rivendell Operations Guide, v1.1.0-1. This new version has been updated to reflect recent changes in Rivendell, including new Rivendell Macro Language (RML) functionality. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. Download links for the Operations Guide in both OpenDocument and PDF formats, as well as Rivendell itself are available at: http://www.rivendellaudiorg/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | On-line, adj.: | | The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a | | computer. | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

16 years, 10 months

Rivendell v1.1.0

by Fred Gleason

On behalf of the entire Rivendell development team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v1.1.0. Rivendell is a full-featured radio automation system targeted for use in professional broadcast environments. It is available under the GNU General Public License. Changes in this release include (from the NEWS file): *** snip snip *** Changes: Custom Encoders. It's now possible to configure Rivendell on a host-by-host basis to use any command-line audio encoder (e.g. FAAC, FFmpeg) to drive exports, uploads and podcasts. Information on setting it up can be found in 'ENCODERS.txt'. GPIO Enhancements. The syntax of the 'GPI Set' [GI], 'GPO Set' [GO] and 'GPI Enable' [GE] RMLs has been extended and the underlying system modified to allow operation of all three commands with both GPI and GPO devices. The old syntax is now deprecated, but still supported for backwards compatability. Information on the new syntax can be found in 'rml.sxw'. New Record RMLs. Two new RMLs, 'Start Record Deck' [RS] and 'Stop Record Deck' [RR] have been added, allowing any RDCatch record deck to be controlled via RML. Information on the new RMLs can be found in 'rml.sxw'. RDLogEdit Runtime Counters. Time counters have been added in the Edit Log screen in RDLogEdit that show the predicted running time of log events from the currently selected event to the next STOP and the end of the log, while highlighting multiple events will display the runtime of the selected events. Metadata Import Enhancements. Support has been added for importing metadata from files generated by the BE AudioVault system (chunk type 'av10'). Database Update: This version of Rivendell uses database schema version 162, and will automatically upgrade any earlier versions. To see the current schema version prior to upgrade, see RDAdmin->SystemInfo. As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to be applied. *** snip snip *** Further information, screenshots and download links are available at: http://www.rivendellaudio.org/ Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Do not try to think outside of the box. That's impossible. Instead, | | realise the truth. There is no box. | | --Quoted by "larsmjoh" on GrokLaw.net | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

16 years, 10 months

FLOSS+Art: Book preview, panel discussion and software party

by propaganda＠goto10.org

Oi! Sorry for >< please >> -- FLOSS+Art: Book preview, panel discussion and software party Thursday 23 October 18:30 - 20:30 @ Mute Magazine HQ The Whitechapel Centre 85 Myrdle Street London E1 1HL With Adnan Hadzi, Anthony Iles, Aymeric Mansoux, Dave Griffiths, James Wallbank, Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova, pure:dyne developers, Taylor Nuttall, and more friends... -- GOTO10 and pure:dyne host an evening dedicated to Free Software and art... * BOOK PREVIEW: Be the first to check out FLOSS+Art, a new openmute publication reflecting on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. Edited by Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. * PANEL DISCUSSION: Anthony Iles moderates a panel discussion on communities of collaboration, online and off, with book contributors Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova, Aymeric Mansoux; and artist/activist Stefan Szczelkun. * SOFTWARE PARTY: Check out the new Debian-based pure:dyne system - the GNU/Linux distribution for media arts. Meet the developers and hear about pure:dyne projects by our friends at Folly (Taylor Nuttall), Access Space (James Wallbank), HTTP/Furtherfield (Marc Garret & Ruth Catlow), Dave Griffiths and Adnan Hadzi. * PLUS: pure:dyne promo goodies, Free Beer and more! More info at: http://www.goto10.org http://puredyne.goto10.org Live interview 16 - 23 October on Netbehaviour: http://www.netbehaviour.org/ -- ABOUT THE BOOK: FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. It provides a view onto the social, political and economic myths and realities linked to this phenomenon. With contributions from: Fabianne Balvedi, Florian Cramer, Sher Doruff, Nancy Mauro Flude, Olga Goriunova, Dave Griffiths, Ross Harley, Martin Howse, Shahee Ilyas, Ricardo Lafuente, Ivan Monroy Lopez, Thor Magnusson, Alex McLean, Rob Myers, Alejandra Maria Perez Nuñez, Eleonora Oreggia, oRx-qX, Julien Ottavi, Michael van Schaik, Femke Snelting, Pedro Soler, Hans Christoph Steiner, Prodromos Tsiavos, Simon Yuill Compiled and edited by Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. With the support of the University of Huddersfield and the Willem de Kooning Academie. http://goto10.org/flossart -- ABOUT THE SOFTWARE: pure:dyne is an essential tool created to provide a complete, Free/Libre/open source (FLOSS) custom and ready-made GNU/Linux computer environment for media artists. The pure:dyne CD can be inserted and run on a computer without the need to install anything, with an aim to make it simple to use on many types of hardware. It contains FLOSS programs for recording and manipulating sound, making live visuals and creating interactive media in installation, and more. Powered by the Debian-Live project. This event is part of the pure:dyne for everyone project, a national series designed to make pure:dyne more accessible through special events with partnering media arts centres across the country. Supported by the Creative Partnerships programme of Arts Council England. -- :*

16 years, 10 months

[ANN] Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.2.2

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

This is a maintenance release, fixing a crash at startup when no MIDI input devices were found. The load/save options now display a warning message if the file operation fails. Spanish translation has been updated. Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI event generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player. Changelog: 2008/10/19 0.2.2 * bug 2164586 segmentation fault at startup * bug 2162189 No warning message despite keymap not saved * real fix for bug 2158014 Crash in windows * Spanish translation updated Copyright (C) 2008, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v3 Web site: http://vmpk.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk Sources: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.2.tar.bz2 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.2.tar.gz Windows setup package: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.2-setup.exe openSUSE RPM packages: http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=vmpk Regards, Pedro

16 years, 10 months

[ANN] Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard 0.2.1

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

This is a maintenance release, fixing a crash in Windows when playing certain MIDI files and connecting a player output to VMPK input. The reset all button now also resets the internal controllers states. The number of keys is now constrained to reasonable limits within the MIDI notes range. The "grab keyboard" feature is now an optional runtime setting, as a workaround for some broken X11 window managers and desktops. Thank you very much for the feedback! Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI event generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player. Changelog: 2008-10-11 0.2.1 * bug #2143187 Documentation * bug #2158014 Crash in Windows * bug #2142335 Keys played beyond the upper MIDI note limits * bug #2142321 Reset all button * grab keyboard: workaround for broken WMs, now this feature is optional * fix for generic Qt translations Copyright (C) 2008, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas License: GPL v3 Web site: http://vmpk.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk Sources: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.1.tar.bz2 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.1.tar.gz Windows setup package: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vmpk/vmpk-0.2.1-setup.exe openSUSE RPM packages: http://software.opensuse.org/search?baseproject=ALL&p=1&q=vmpk Regards, Pedro

16 years, 10 months

Qtractor 0.2.2 (flirty ditz) is out!

by Rui Nuno Capela

Qtractor 0.2.2 (flirty ditz) is out! ------------------------------------ Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application, written in C++ on top of Qt Software's Qt4 framework, having JACK and ALSA as its main infrastructures and Linux as native and exclusive platform. Specially suited to the lone-wolf composer, arranger and (re)creative music-maker personal home-studio, it still hopes to evolve as a fairly featured desktop audio/MIDI workstation or at least, a prototypal part of it ;) Release highlights: * Stephen Doonan joined documentation team and revised the user manual. * Spurious MIDI events recording bug ow fixed. * Audio track monitoring and plugin loop processing slightly improved if not fixed. * MIDI clip editor improved precision and correct snapping. * Multiple track mute and solo one-click toggling (NEW). * Better MIDI connection persistance across sessions. * Record-armed tracks aren't muted on playback anymore (NEW). * Optimized audio clip waveform caching and drawing. * Many more or less fixes (see change-log) Website: http://qtractor.sourceforge.net Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtractor Download: - source tarball http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.2.2.tar.gz - user manual http://downloads.sourceforge.net/qtractor/qtractor-0.2.2-user-manual.pdf Weblog (upstream support): http://www.rncbc.org License: Qtractor is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later. Features: - Multi-track audio and MIDI sequencing and recording. - Developed on pure Qt4 C++ application framework (no Qt3 nor KDE dependencies). - Uses JACK for audio and ALSA sequencer for MIDI as multimedia infrastructures. - Traditional multi-track tape recorder control paradigm. - Audio file formats support: OGG (via libvorbis), MP3 (via libmad, playback only), WAV, FLAC, AIFF and many, many more (via linsndfile). - Standard MIDI files support (format 0 and 1). - Non-destructive, non-linear editing. - Unlimited number of tracks per session/project. - Unlimited number of overlapping clips per track. - XML encoded session/project description files (SDI). - Point-and-click, multi-select, drag-and-drop interaction (drag, move, drop, cut, copy, paste, delete, split) - Unlimited undo/redo. - Built-in mixer and monitor controls. - Built-in connection patchbay control and persistence (a-la QjackCtl). - LADSPA, DSSI and native VSTi plug-ins support. - Unlimited number of plug-ins per track or bus. - Plug-in presets, programs and chunk/configurations support. - Audio/MIDI clip fade-in/out (linear, quadratic, cubic). - Audio clip time-stretching (WSOLA-like or via librubberband), pitch-shifting (also via librubberband) and seamless sample-rate conversion (via libsamplerate). - Audio/MIDI track export (mix-down, merge). - Audio/MIDI metronome bar/beat clicks. - MIDI clip editor (piano roll). - MIDI instrument definitions (a-la Cakewalk(tm)) - JACK transport sync master. - MMC control surface enabled. - Configurable keyboard shortcuts. Change-log: - Slight optimization in audio and MIDI meters refresh rate. - Another ancient bug has been squashed: MIDI events were being recorded even though recording wasn't rolling; spurious event times were being recorded due to an absent started queue. - Major fix applied to audio track monitor metering, and most importantly to plugin processing, correcting tentatively all audio buffer offsetting and slicing due on loop turnarounds. - Fixed a potential crash and/or simple record dismissal when changing properties of a track already armed for recording; prevent record engaged tracks from editing or removal. - Lighten up the connections line and highlight colors, as seen to fit best on some darker background themes. - Several icons refined with slight transparent shadowing. - Send/reset all MIDI buses and track controllers (ie. volume and panning) only when main transport playback is started, avoiding the pouring on eg. loop, playhead or tempo changes. - Pressing the Escape key also clears current selection in the main track-view and MIDI clip editor; resizing multiple events at once doesn't need help from Shift or Ctrl modifiers anymore. - DSSI and VSTi plugins get all their default parameters values reset on MIDI program change. - Several major fixes have been applied to the MIDI clip editor, regarding snap precision and correctness, most specially due on clips which weren't located on exact bar boundaries. - Brand new usability feature introduced: mute, solo and monitor toggling may now be applied to all tracks in session at once, when issued with either the Shift or Ctrl keyboard modifiers, which will set or reverse respectively all other tracks state. - Audio buses plugin chain may be also accessed and edited from the extended bus management dialog (View/Buses...). - MIDI meter level default color is now set distinct from the old lime-green one as in audio level meters. - MIDI clip editor is now a genuine top-level window, fixing all keyboard shortcut ambiguities with main application window. - Mixer splitter panes are now collapsible and optionally hidden. - Make MIDI instrument patch management a little more sane, as for preventing the accidental insertion of blank instrument names and automatic default bank/program selection in track properties. - All connections are now based exclusively on the textual client and port names, effective in particular to match MIDI bus ports with disregard to their volatile numerical identification. - MIDI file (SMF) header endianess fix (PPC users rejoyce:)) - Record armed tracks aren't muted for playback anymore, as this was a severe crippling nuisance regarding input monitoring and all mighty user experience after recording a simple take; for instance, as the bottom line goes, there's no need to un-arm a track from its record-enabled state anymore, for just recorded material get heard on immediate playback; kick on the jam! - Playhead position overflow fixed on negative MMC STEP commands. - Thumb-view width proportions now based on minimal slack session length instead of the auto-extending track-view contents width. - Optimize audio clip drawing, most specially on zoomed-out levels. - Bring the audio peak frames into some sort of cache, preventing recurrent peak frame buffer reallocation and trashing. Cheers && Enjoy! -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

16 years, 10 months

MMA Musical MIDI Accompaniment Version 1.4

by Bob van der Poel

Version 1.4 of MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment - is now available for downloading. Included in this release: - -T command line option to limit tracks generated. - AllGrooves command makes it easy to change a set of parms in a library file - Debian package added to download section. - 'man' pages have been created for mma, mma-renum and mma-libdoc. - A simple math parser has been added. You can use this anywhere a macro is valid. Anything in $( )$ delimiters is evaluated (safely) using Python. - lots of bug fixes and library additions. Read the complete change log in the distro: CHANGES-1.3. MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details please visit: http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bob(a)mellowood.ca -- **** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca

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